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* perl5@tux.freedom.nl <perl5@tux.freedom.nl> [2023-03-17 11:53:37 +0100]: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:49:27 +0100, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > > > TLDR: Single space after a full stop is easier to automate, the current > > standard taught in school, and minimally impacts reading speed. Let us > > make the standard be one space after a full stop. > > As with mixed indent: I am in the camp of not caring at all. > > It does not speed up or slow down my reading speed: that is very slow > as it is already. Maybe this is more important to the native English > tongues Doesn't matter, but same here. I do more so pay attention to line widths and find vertical "rivers"* extremely distracting. HTML collapses consecutive spaces anyway, which I think is why people have forgotten this rule. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography) Somebody once said, don't take down a fence until you know why it was put there in the first place. WWW and the fog of HTML might be the reason we might not "care" about it. Anyway, there is a reason this double spacing happens. What is it? Here's some science on the matter, I mean if anyone trusts it anymore: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing#Studies Wikipedia's article claims improvement are dubious and describes conflicting results. Cheers, Brett > > -- > H.Merijn Brand https://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ > using perl5.00307 .. 5.37 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and Linux > https://tux.nl/email.html http://qa.perl.org https://www.test-smoke.org > -- -- oodler@cpan.org oodler577@sdf-eu.org SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System - http://sdfeu.org irc.perl.org #openmp #pdl #nativeThread Previous | Thread Next